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skwheelon A coax cable horror story

sorry to be snarky there. Your post read to me like, "I haven't seen a banana in the US in 10 years. We don't eat them anymore."

skwheelon A coax cable horror story

what are you talking about? Drive _anywhere_ in the UK and you'll see an aerial TV antenna on almost every roof.

skwheelon Come Break My Compiler

Yes, exactly. I really thought the author was trying to argue that no one writes in assembly. But then when I reached the butterfly line, I realized it was just sloppy writing missing commas.

skwheelon Come Break My Compiler

Oh my god, yes. I had to re-read that paragraph three times, and then open the xkcd to confirm what the author really meant. This absolutely killed the flow of the article for me.

skwheelon Bug identified after Alaska Airlines planes bump runway while taking off

"The software code was permanently repaired about five hours later."

I always try to permanently repair the software when I find bugs.

skwheelon Infinite-Storage-Glitch – Use YouTube as cloud storage for any files

after your finals, you should read about forward error correction.

skwheelon How much I’ve spent so far running my own Mastodon server on AWS

> For compute - a single Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) t4g.small instance running Mastodon, it’s PostgresSQL database, and Redis.

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skwheelon FCC fines Charter, LTD Broadband more than $3M for RDOF defaults

Yes. Idaho

skwheelon It’s time to leave the leap second in the past

Yes, I fully support this position by Meta but their reasoning is not quite right when it comes to astronomers and scientists. Passing around a leap second kernel is a major pain for everyone dealing with GPS, satellite ephemerides, celestial bodies, etc. Leap seconds transform a problem which is entirely deterministic, and make it dependent on a policy decided by a committee, like timezones.

skwheelon FCC fines Charter, LTD Broadband more than $3M for RDOF defaults

That's what I have: fiber infra as a public utility, with a choice of ISPs on top of that.

Funny fact, the ISP I chose is $10/month for 1G down/up. Want to add a phone line (which runs digitally over fiber)? That'll be an extra $26/month. It's as if they know the only people who want a phone line are willing to pay a lot for it.

skwheelon FCC fines Charter, LTD Broadband more than $3M for RDOF defaults

My city runs fiber infra as a public utility, with about a half dozen options of ISPs to choose from which provide internet connectivity on top of that infra. I pay $26/month total for 1000 Mbps down, 1000 Mbps up. It's a huge benefit to everyone living here. The city is going neighborhood by neighborhood, connecting everyone that wants it.

To me, the best part isn't even the price. It's the satisfaction of not having to deal with Comcast/Cox/Verizon/charter/etc.